Herbert Prikopa
Herbert "Happi" Prikopa was an Austrian television presenter, conductor, operatic tenor, actor, composer, writer, pianist and cabaret artist.
Life and career
Born in Vienna, in 1935, at the age of 19, Prikopa became the youngest répétiteur at the Wiener Volksoper. After a singing engagement at the Wiener Kammeroper he became a member of Gerhard Bronner's "" in the cabaretHe was the presenter of the children's television programme on the ORF in the 1980s. Here he appeared as Herbert Happi Prikopa.
On 21 March 2005, Prikopa received the professor.
He died in Vienna on 8 December 2015 at age 80.
Filmography
- 1957:
- 1957: Sissi – Fateful Years of an Empress
- 1960: My Niece Doesn't Do That
- 1962: No Kissing Under Water
- 1963: Kaiser Joseph und die Bahnwärterstochter
- 1963: Our Crazy Aunts in the South Seas
- 1964:
- 1967: Jahresrückblick with Karl Farkas and Gerhard Bronner
- 1969–1970:
- 1972–1976: Die Abenteuer des braven Soldaten Schwejk
- 1974: Das Land des Lächelns
- 1975: Der Kommissar: Das Goldene Pflaster
- 1977: Der Alte: Die Dienstreise
- 1978: The Tailor from Ulm
- 1978: Tatort –
- 1981: Wie Böhmen noch bei Österreich war
- 1985: Der Leihopa
- 2001: Julia – Eine ungewöhnliche Frau
- 2007: Oben ohne
Radio plays
- 1984: Otto Brusatti: Die letzten Stunden der Menschheit – director: Otto Brusatti
Dissography (partial)
Gräfin Mariza, Die lustige Witwe, Le Grand Macabre,Some compositions
- Classic Piano. 28 Kompositionen für KlavierVisit to ChimeraChimeraThe Pillars of the worldThinking Positively
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Works
- 1994: Erich Kunz – Biographie des Sängers, together with Cornelia Szabó-Knotik, Löcker–Verlag Wien,
- 1998: 100 Jahre Volksoper – Die Geschichte eines notwendigen Theaters, Iberia-Verlag Vienna,
- 2003: Strauß-Führer durch Europa und die umliegenden Ortschaften, Iberia-Verlag Vienna,